Episode 623: Whose Fault Is It Anyway?

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So Brian, what are you going to do when you take control of the vast Channel 5 and Co-Hog Rhode Island broadcasting empire? Are you going to sign up for any wrestling promotions to multi-million dollar rights, fee deals and things of that nature to compete with the big boys we're reading about? That's actually my dream to have a local television station I could run and program. I would definitely have wrestling. You don't want to run it, you just want to program it. No, I'd actually like to run the business end of it too, but I would definitely have wrestling because wrestling brings eyeballs. It wouldn't be anything I had to pay a lot of money for and depending on the investment my station was going to make in it, either we would use our studio and just do our own thing or I'd find a company and have their, like, you know, the deal that Sinclair is doing with the NWA. I would do something like that. Well, and boy, and I don't know who the heels going to be in that program, but good luck to the two of them working together. But as a matter of fact, let's talk about wrestling business a little bit because do you know what yesterday was in a city of Louisville, Kentucky? As you and I sit here recording now, not as this airs, but yesterday in Louisville, Kentucky, do you know what that was? Yesterday, February 26th as we are recording. It's either the anniversary or some great tragedy or it's the announcement of this year's Thunder Over Louisville. The big return coming this summer. No, it isn't. Well, it ain't coming this summer because it's in April. It's the start of Derby Festival for Evan's sake. It's always like the second or third Saturday. I forget how they work that out in April. Nevertheless, no. You are incorrect. It was Cody Rhodes Day in Louisville, Kentucky. Brian. Cody. Cody. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. was here in OVW in 2006 and 2007. Right, which no one ever talks about ever. But if it was CM Punk, it would be worth it. People talk about CM Punk and OVW. It's a part of his story. It's a big part of his story, but. Oh, yes. But Cody was here for quite some time also. But the fucking rib of this. Is it remember when the folks from over in England, from West Faber-Sham that owned the soccer team or the football team over there, they bought OVW, right? We talked about this on the program and made fun of why would a small town soccer club in England want to own a wrestling school in Louisville, Kentucky or is Wales? I'm sorry. Wales. That's right. I keep getting that wrong and I apologize to the to the Englishman as well as the Walesman. The Welch. The, well, not Ron and Robert and Buddy don't have anything to do with this. No, Ron's too busy adjusting his wig. Now down boy. But anyway, the point is when they bought it, you know who they bought it from? One of the people was mayor Craig Greenberg. And I'm just thinking where now where are the folks from West Faber-Sham? Now, what did what did they end up doing because they had big plans? Remember, they thought people like us laughing at them was good. It was giving them publicity, but they had big plans for OVW and we're still waiting. I saw OVW. I saw the OVW, some of the OVW talent on and I'm not going to. I'm not going to blister. I'm not trying to blister any of the current young OVW hopefuls. It's not their fault. The way that this thing is going or being run or whatever the hell is going on here. And there are there. I assume there are a bunch of friends in a community theater project at this point and they're having the time of their life and bless them. But again, over the last what's it been? I've lost track 10 years since. Not maybe not even since Danny Davis sold the thing to to Al Snow and whoever he had found to be his investor. I can't keep track of all these things this point. I don't know if anybody's ever known. Danny's and Pence colon he could give a shit who the OVW TV champion is or whatever, right? Danny's retired and he's deliriously happy. But then it was Al that owned it and then remember this was. Oh God, seven or eight years ago. I was talking to my cousin Larry who used to be in the medical services field and he knows doctors. He says, yeah, I've got a doctor friend that invested in a local wrestling promotion. I saw what I saw. Oh, how Valley wrestling. Yeah, is it? Did you do used to do so? He don't know anything about wrestling, right? Did you just do some with that? Yeah. But there were people investing in this company. And then. Well, I don't know if the mayor was in on it yet because I think it's so confusing. But remember they did this Netflix documentary thing on OVW a couple of years ago now and they probably shot it a year before that. They thought that was going to propel them into the stratosphere. Oh, yeah. Remember they did a tour after that. Yeah. Well, they I think they got to the first or second stop and decided to come on home from what I heard. But nevertheless. But the in the documentary Matt Jones, the guy from Kentucky Sports Radio was the guy was saying, oh my God, we're going to lose a couple of hundred grand this year. And at that time I said, what the fuck is going on? Daddy Davis and I could have let everybody in free and not lost a couple of our grand in a year, right? And then the mayor was revealed as one of the local investors in OVW where they got accreditation as a trade school. What are they teaching about a build the ring before they bump in it? And then West Favorsham comes in and by and I'm not this I don't want this to sound like sour grapes like all quartet used to have the thing and now you don't know I'm trying to figure out how that anybody thought that this was something that they should invest money in based on having run it at the only time when it ever made money. Do you see what I'm saying? Is this an unfair question to me to be asking? No, but I think you have the unique perspective of knowing what the business is and realizing. I mean, I don't want to just put people down, but it's how it's a bunch of idiots who bought OVW and never I don't know if I'd class file snow as an idiot now because I don't know if he's actually got personal money in this thing is a lot of other people we can confirm do but go ahead. Well, I mean, the issue is, you know, all of these things we're talking about. Imagine how different all of these conversations would be even knowing that it's whether majority students or you know, just a lot of students. But if the show was good, imagine if OVW TV was actually watchable and good. Not another attempt to copy someone else's style like everyone does falling into the WWE Vince McMahon way of producing television with absolutely apparently no budget for production whatsoever at a hand of interns basically manning all the positions. You know, I'm just it always blows me away when people who have spent their life around wrestling get a chance to book or write wrestling television and it's like they don't understand wrestling, but whatever. That's just my perspective. Well, but I don't understand business here. That's what I was saying because again, I saw some OVW guys on the news several days ago. They were promoting. I don't know to be honest. I didn't pay close enough attention, but it's it's apparently a show at a local brewery. They got several of those custom brewery, not custom breweries. What what's the word I'm searching for? The small local craft craft. There you go. Brewery. Yes, right. It's it's a brewery or whatever they've got a show there. I every once in a while, they do a show at a festival of some description around town and then they do their TV show once a week, which is. Let's not say, you know, sparsely attended. How about that? And how much are they paying themselves and well, but here's the thing because otherwise how you're losing all that money? Well, that's what I'm that's what I'm saying to you is that's what they're doing. They don't. They don't do the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom shows that we again, I'm speaking from experience. This is how we made money with OVW without WWF involvement figured in. It's not about a well, they just don't need a developmental contract. We had and I've told the various stories about our business and OVW with the soul shows to clear channel when the gardens was open and that was that we sold those shows to clear channel radio for what three shows for the 12. 120 thousand dollars. But they grossed 150 or 60 plus clear channel made money on sponsorships, the Thornton's gas stations in town. Every one of them had a six foot stone cold stand up and they were in all the advertising that went to clear channel. So there was an independent wrestling school in a market with television or radio partners can make profits for its ownership of in the tens of thousands of dollars a month. And you could be very comfortable, but for doctors and lawyers and mayors and investors and people losing tens of thousands of dollars a month. I don't know how the fuck they're doing that. And that that's what I said they're not running any shows to speak of. And the you know the talent everybody's got a belt of some kind and they got a gimmick and I'm sure they're happy working probably even happier working together than the AEW locker room is. But there is no major television partner or radio partner or big arena or thing for them to build to Kentucky Kingdom shows or major event, whatever the fuck. There's no developmental contract. So why the fuck are there so many people buying into this fucking thing that I can't imagine unless all of the students are paying promptly on their tuition to pay to be there. Where is the fucking as Jared Jared used to say where's the blue sky? Where is the blue skies when the angel investor comes in from Faber-Sham and buys your company? That's the blue sky. That's what it's all about. Where are they? Where are they going to? What sky are they looking at? They're looking up at the lights right now. Faber-Sham's blue skies when they go to Saudi Arabia and meet with some chic and say hey we've got this company we own all these soccer teams that you know are big in West Faber-Sham and plus plus we own this wrestling school in Louisville Kentucky with and their cattle. 12 guys and six girls that probably have content fucking part-time jobs at Chili's. What is going on? It's about the content. They could say we have this incredible content library going back to 2011 or whatever it is right? Where's it? Because they don't have any of the WWE owns the OVW stuff up to what point? Oh, that would only be to 2007, I believe. But I mean, it's not like there's been a lot of truthfully stellar content since then. To be quite honest, although there was a period of time when Danny had the TNA relationship and you know, they were sending some people in. I was not a close observer, but that's you know, it's because you knew how to write a TV show that made people actually care about the show and want to see what was going to happen the next week and every time I've seen OVW since then, including the bits I saw that Netflix documentary made me never want to see any of it ever again. Well, but then I'm not going to disagree with you there, but the main basic thing was as long as Danny Davis was running that company, it was not going to. It might lose in the later years, a few dollars here and there, but it was not going to ultimately run at a major loss to him. And that's about the time that he figured, you know what? This is not going to. He was disenchanted with the business quite a bit before that and probably as much as I was, but about the time he was ready to go, he went and I don't know what the fuck has gone on. Again, it's only been. I lose track of time and the time just passes so quickly these days but seven, eight years. All these people are trying to own this thing and they're doing less and less and. I mean, again, I know the market in Louisville and it's it's it's not like that there is at that at this particular juncture that you could make a case you could bring somebody and say, look, here's what I've got and here's Louisville, Kentucky, and here's what we're doing and I want X dollars and I would say how the fuck do you expect to make any kind of five figure sums with what you got going on here? Well, maybe they're hoping for a big boost from Cody Rhodes Day to get a lot of attention for them. Well, now they were hoping for a boost for Smackdown because they ain't gonna fill out to fill up the YUM Center. I'll tell you that. But nevertheless, we'll report on the YUM Center on your show. You brought up Cody Rhodes and OVW. And of course, when Cody Rhodes first came up to the main roster, I believe he was with Ted DiBiasi, Jr. And then they were put with Randy Orton. It was a third generation thing. You've been following the trial of Ted DiBiasi, Jr. You know, I get so goddamn confused with all these various defendants in this scheme to imbezzle and embroil and fucking embargo money from charities and poor people under the guise of religion and or public service that all I know lately is he keeps trying to declare a mistrial and they keep he keeps missing. What's the latest? I have a little bit of audio I could play you. This is from the channel 16. I believe WAPT in Mississippi. They have a report from the courthouse. Somebody play you some audio. It doesn't appear the prosecutors are out to embarrass John Davis. Those text messages show he had a very personal, almost romantic like relationship with the DiBiasi brothers. The question is why? God damn it. And one 2018 text messages from Brett to Davis. Brett says I don't. Brett is Brett DiBiasi, Ted DiBiasi, Jr.'s brother who's implicated in this whole thing as well. I don't know where I stand with you every time I think of you. I want to be with you. Davis responded. I love you. I love you. I love you. Another Brett text to Davis reads. It's only when I'm with you. I feel safe enough to sleep. Davis told the jury he got very close to Brett in the July 2018 text message. Davis told Teddy, Jr. I will freaking die for you. Teddy responded. It would be my honor to die for you, bro. Because of his special bond with the DBA. Let me stop it there for a second. Fuck is the matter with all of these people? I've got some great friends in my life. I've never ridden any of them. It would be an honor to die for you, bro. What the fuck is that? Yeah, no, that's some it will be. Are they is this guy? Are they stringing him along in some type of way to cover for them and whatever the fuck that they've been doing along with? Who's the big one in this of David John Davis? No, the big one, the big guy that took all the money or took more most of the money. The top guy in this scheme in Mississippi. There's another guy's involved there. Go ahead. They may mention him. Who knows they may be planning to kill him next. John Davis was the MDHS director. Let's go back to the remaining moments of audio. The Aussies. Davis admitted he pressured new school summit founder Nancy new and family resource and director Christie Webb to give DBA say a $497,000 contract and a half million dollar contract from news nonprofit. Even as DBA see showed no receipts or any documents on how the money was spent. Davis told the jury he kept pushing to make sure it DBA see got more contracts. Prosecutors say DBA say use some $2.9 million in what they call sham contracts to buy a new car, a new boat and purchase a new house in the city of Madison reported from the federal courthouse in downtown Ross Adams 16 WAPT news. Well, thank you. That was from our correspondent WAPT news here on the show, but fine fine newsroom down there of again. Yes. And Teddy, did he get out of this yet? They were he has some ministry that was accused of taking money in this whole scheme also. You mean I'd seen you. We should you're talking about Teddy senior. No, I mean Ted senior because we should I guess explain at this point. That DBA sees. Plural and all these other people. Took millions of dollars from the state of Mississippi under the guys that they were charitable or that they were foundations that were doing various things and were doing Jack all of squad except as you heard buying themselves boats and cars and things. But now. This okay Davis sounds like a cuckoo. And. It I would I would consider it an honor to die for you, bro indicates that they are trying to keep him. In their good graces. Because I guess he was the one passing the contracts through or the. What the and why do these people write shit like this down when they're engaged in giant conspiracies. The reporter said they had a very friendly almost romantic like relationship. So I don't know what and not that there's anything wrong with that but when it gets money. Well, I'll die without you and well I'll consider it an honor to die for you amongst people who have stolen millions of dollars and fraudulent charities. This gets disturbing all the way around. It's crazy watching the footage here on the video comparing it to like anything you see in New York or most big cities where if there's a big trial you see the person walking down the street with their lawyers and you'll see media or just weird people who go to the courthouse to hang around. There's no one here. It's like it's Ted D B. I see this lawyers walking in there. There's no one. There's not a single person anywhere near them. Is it there in Jackson right Jackson, Mississippi? I believe so. Well, I. Why would you go downtown in Jackson, Mississippi unless you were going to fucking court? Well, we will stay on top of this story and again, I brought it up because you made me think of it when you brought up Cody Rhodes Day. Who knows how different history would be today of Ted D. B. Ossie Jr. Had taken better to the industry and stayed with it. Who knows where he would be today? Well, and also who knows it could have been Ted D. B. Ossie Day in Jackson, Mississippi instead of Ted D. B. Ossie's court day in Jackson, Mississippi. And we're junior and said, but that's the day. Can you Google real quick before we get out of this and talk about another miscreant who's had a brush with some kind of public incident is Ted senior still. Being accused or anything that I hated to hear that and was hoping that it was. Some way or another that his son had become another of the goddamn second generation people of my generation that brought shame on their family name. As of early 2026, according to an AI overview by Google, Ted D. B. Ossie Sr. has not been criminally charged or put on trial regarding the Mississippi welfare scandal. While his sons Ted Jr. and Brett pleaded guilty to charges related to misappropriating funds, Ted Sr. is only named in a separate ongoing civil lawsuit brought by the State Welfare Department. The state is suing him. The Welfare Department. Yeah. Oh Christ Christ on a cracker. Alrighty, well, I guess we'll keep everybody updated on that case now going forward that we've we've taken a sudden fucking turn from who's being hoodwinked at a money laundering scheme to goddamn by contemporaries. Kids are going to fucking jail. Did you hear about Brian to just try to concentrate more on the positive things and wrestling? Did you hear about Darby Allen getting kicked out of an Uber? I heard about this nonstop yesterday. Tons of people were sending over via email to the cult of Cornet Facebook group Twitter, the video nonstop. Seemingly a lot of people are certain that it's real and legitimate and I don't know how I feel about that. Well, yeah, I know exactly how I feel about it. Can are we allowed to play that? How this was all over the place if if Dix wrestling news dot com can play it. Can we listen to the conversation that went on somehow? Give me one moment. Let me pull this up. I'm on a I mean folks, you can see that we carefully plan and produce this program just within a goddamn millisecond of timing on the four minutes. All right, I believe I have audio here. Well, hold on. Let me just give my initial way I heard about this was I turned on the Twitter machine and everybody's going to his head like Darby Allen kicked out of Uber on the air or whatever it was, right? Various versions of that. And apparently the story is that Darby was doing a. I guess a radio show call in to promote one of their live events and it's not it's not a call in like we used to do on the radio where you're actually calling on the phone. He's got his phone, but it's the video. He's got his video face on the what is a FaceTime or what are the children do now with the phone? Well, it could be FaceTime. It could be Zoom. It could be who knows what exactly, but he is whatever the fuck he's doing a live video interview with a podcast host who appears to be in a studio or at least something that resembles a studio. Also, it was not even radio. It's just some podcast like any jackoff can have like us. Okay. I guess it could be radio. Actually, I don't know. I thought it was a local radio station. I believe it says podcast interview here in the video. Okay. Well, nevertheless, he's doing this on on video in the back seat, I guess of an Uber and somehow the Uber driver says, Oh dude, can you can you hang up? What? I'm doing this. No, I'm, hey, I've been at work since five o'clock in the morning. I don't want to hear you talking. You're too loud. Get off the phone. And it escalates very quickly. As a matter of fact, you know, to where. Derby gets put out on the side of the road for not wanting to hang up and be driver. Let's just say will not. Not ever win any Academy Awards for the Academy Awards for dramatic acting. And if Derby is not anymore perturbed about this, then he has about anything else in his life. I'd just walk up to him and actually piss on his leg and see if he just fucking cared because it's just like, oh, I'm so I'm here on the side of the road. It's phony as a football bat. But let's break it down. I have the audio here. Break it down. Again, the previous. The previous incidents we have not had. We didn't see video of him getting hit in the face by a bus, for instance. But let's go to this. Derby Allen doing a podcast interview. I'm not exactly sure with who you collision. We got this program going on. Can we expect to see like a map? One second. I hate to interrupt like your AA or like therapy session or but it's kind of rude of you to be on speakerphone like in someone's Uber. Is it cool if I finish? Look, man, I've been driving since 5am. I'm tired. Like can you just put the phone up like it's a little rude. This is like an interview. Yeah, we're like on we're on national TV right now just doing an interview here. I don't care. I make like $15 an hour. Like I don't care. Yeah, but you want five stars. This is like this is one star behavior. Is this your AA sponsor or something? No, it's not a sponsor. I don't care. Plus for a second. Plus for a second. That's the second time he's dropped the AA line. That means that was one he was fed and Darby straight edge and right and that's to whatever this program they've cooked up in their fucking heads. It was a key line. And the guy thought he got stepped on before he wouldn't make sure that everybody heard it. And why would you just randomly accuse this guy who you obviously you have no idea who this fucking guy is in the backseat of your car, putting in some AA call or something. It's it's just it's this is not realistic in any way. They're just doing a fucking skit for a podcast and to get publicity and people bought it, but go back and let them expose themselves further back to the interview. And again, I'm not exactly sure who is the host or what this show is. Otherwise I would give them some credit. I'm not sure what this show is either. Like $15 an hour. I don't hear. Yeah, but you want five stars. This is like this is one star behavior. Is your sponsor or something? No, it's not a sponsor. I don't care. I just put the phone away. I'm straight edge. Yeah, he's yeah. I knew at this face pain is Gene Simmons saying like you're going to be trouble like yeah. Hold on for a second. I knew with this face painting Gene Simmons thing, you were going to be trouble. That's a hell of a lot. Well, the guy's freestyling now. See, he's he's he's getting into his character and coming up with his own shit. Oh my God. That's one star behavior, sir, you know, and honestly, a lift driver would not drive like that. I'm not going to get. Take me to Tucson. Yeah, yeah, take him to Tucson. So we could be doing an AEW live. Here. I'm over this. I'm out of my car now. Let me see. We're in the middle of the highway. Get out. Get out. Get out of my car. We're in the middle of the highway. Darby's so upset. The guy's pounding on his wheel screaming behavior you never see unless it's like a bunch of shit happening, maybe with a lunatic. Yeah, you know, there's there's certain fucking chemicals that you could, you know, sit, but not just at this is no. And again, Darby, if this is the level of anger that he gets at this, like I said, I just want to walk up to him and just fucking slap him. What's it? He's not in any seeming to show any inconvenience at being put out on the side of the road. See, lift driver. Go. I'm in the middle of the highway. So let me go over here. He drove off on you. It looked like he drove off on you. Yeah, he drove off on you. He's gone. So what were we saying? I got to find it. I fucking love you, dude. And again, some of these jump cuts are because that's how Darby posted on his Instagram. That's where we are getting this audio from. Ah, OK, so that's yeah. Do you expect to see you do to match in Tucson when the collision comes to town on March 7? Can we expect to see me in Tucson? I'm in the middle of the highway. If I get it over, I will be there. I promise you. I love it. Well, you know, get on the phone, get your Uber, get the Tucson safe. Darby Allen, we appreciate everything that you're doing. All right, I think we can call it there. You know what? Yeah, I think we can call it all right. It's clearly a bit. And I'm OK with that because you know what? Darby Allen has shown us that he goes the extra mile. Remember when he used to do cameos and like every cameo that we played was like a brand new bit of like someone crashing through something like it was never the same thing twice. Yeah, it was always like something new. And again, although it's clearly a bit, you know, you kind of need all the parties to be good at what you're doing for this. I give him credit for always having some sort of creative way to promote himself or promote something. I mean, you know, again, it's a bit, but it's not terrible. And the idea behind it is. Is he is he is something always happening it to him to the point where he's crying wolf as butch read would say selling wolf tickets. Is it just now do we question? Did he really get hit by the bus? We didn't see it. He just told people about it. Is how? What one person is he the forest gump of awkward social interactions where there's always something that's going on in the car and there's always something happening to him at some given point in public. Yes. I think that's exactly it. I think that's exactly it because I've seen other interviews with him where he's just talking about like traveling and like things he's done in the car and it's like Jesus, what's wrong with this guy? That's just the way he lives and. Yeah, a bit. I don't know where they were. They were clearly not on the way to Tucson. I wish to God. That everybody had had a video camera in their pocket 40 years ago. I could have shown people some goddamn cab driver fucking harassment stories. You would have and you would have believed it because they did. I've told you about Bobby Eaton and cab drivers. No, or have I Bobby Eaton and cab drivers? No, I don't have any. He had this bit. Well, I mean, I've told stories with the guy, the cab driver in DC on the way to the Armory got us lost and I had to get on the radio and radio the fucking dispatcher to give us directions to get from the neighborhood. He'd got us into the fucking Armory and not only did he try to charge us, which not only paying you, but if you try to charge us again, does Congress gonna beat the fuck out of you? That was one cab story. That wasn't funny. But Bobby would do this bit and we wouldn't call it. And the first time he did it, we just kind of went with it and it was so much fun that then whenever he'd do it again, we'd do the same basic thing. We'd be riding a cab somewhere. And because there was three of it, all the bags are filling up the fucking trunk and there's two of us because we're all fairly large in the back and you could ride in the front seat back then. I know you can't in New York. You can't ride in a front seat of a cab in New York, Kenya. With the driver. Actually depends on the car, but I wouldn't advise it. Well, no, I thought it was like they wouldn't let you because they're afraid of getting robbed or whatever because it's a goddamn bank vault window in between the fucking front and the back. 40 years ago, if we're in a cab in goddamn Birmingham, it's a fucking car. Maybe there's a window. Maybe there's not right between the front and the back. And Bobby would get be the one to get up in the front, but he would start rocking on the trip. Right. Oh, corny corny Bobby. Bobby, did you take your pills? No, I didn't take my head. And the cab drivers start kind of notice and I said, sir, I'm sorry, just it's a private. He got hit by a bread truck when he was a teenager and he just sometimes has flashbacks. He's supposed to be on some medication. Oh, corny. It's my head. You know, I said, the last thing that he remembers hearing before the truck hit him was the sound of the brake squealing. So sometimes when he's moving in the country as traffic around, he has these issues and Bobby's rocking. And as soon as something makes any kind of noise, Bobby says the brakes, the brakes, he'd eat lunch for the goddamn guys steering wheel and I'd grab him around the neck. No, Bobby. No, Bobby. Oh my God. How did the drivers react? They didn't know what to do. Well, what are they going to fucking do right then? Right. I'll say sir. I'm sorry. He's okay. He's all right. See, I'm sorry. Mother. Sometimes I just hear the brakes. The brakes. Oh. It's a little ribbed past the time. See, that's like wrestling. You know, the. The. The old days. What's the story? Not that it was a rib, but what story do I remember about? Because I would have heard it from you. Was it you pulling up to. Tech would drive and kicking the guy's cab and Doug Dillinger had to come out. Oh yes. No, it that it wasn't. Was it Doug Dillinger then? Maybe not. Maybe it wasn't Doug. It was Atlanta. So maybe it wasn't. Well, I'm trying to think of who the fuck that it was. It was a little bit of a. I mean, I think it was a little bit of a. Maybe it wasn't. Well, I'm trying to think of who the fuck that it was. It was it Charlie McGowan. Nevertheless, yes. Me and I think at that point, it was Bobby and Stan. About the stand is on the team by that point. As we did every week practically for fucking goddamn. I don't know how long years took a cab. From the Atlanta airport to the fucking TBS studio for the morning tapings where then we'd call a cab and go back to the flight somewhere fucking five hours later. And every time we fuck it, it's I think it was 15 bucks at the time to go from the airport to TBS. We'd give the guy 20 bucks or whatever. But buddy, give me some receipts and we would each get a receipt where we could put on our income tax because we each would fucking put in one day I'd pay the 20 next day blah, blah, blah, blah. But we'd all get receipts. You know the drill. And they were just they were a blank pad. Like a notepad of receipts from the bills. Taxi company. Paid X dollars from X to X. And you fill it in. Right. So every week we get these. This one guy. I need a receipt. But here's 20. I say one for each of us. And the boys already got out of the car. They're getting their stuff and he gives me one receipt. I say, give me give me two more. He said, oh, no. I know what you're trying to do. What you trying to cheat the government? What the fuck are you? What are you out of that? I could buy one of those fucking pads from a print shop. You idiot. Just give me three of them. You don't have to sign anything. They'll never know. I don't know why he would. He refused to give me back to give me the fucking two other receipts. These are not serial numbered or in any way tied to him. They're blank pads that the fucking cab companies use. Right. And he said, I will not give to you. I said, in that case, give me the fucking five dollar tip back. And he said, and now the boys don't know whatever the fuck is going on. I've already walked in the back door of the TV studio and I said, give me the fucking five dollar tip back. No, I want you to get out of my and I got out the back seat because I grabbed my fucking bag. I didn't want this guy to fucking drive off of my shit. Right. But I'm still standing in the way. I said, no, you give me the five dollars. We're going to be here a while. I will not. I'll tell you what, then here this cost you more than five dollars. So I started putting the boots to the back door of his fucking car. Wham, wham. And he jumps out. He's like, God, I don't know what the fuck. And he has popped the fucking trunk and he comes out of the trunk with a broom handle. So I said, I want you son of a bitch. I dropped my god damn suit. I pulled my head in my racket across the top of my carry bag. I dropped my suit bag and pulled the racket off the top of the carry bag. We're going to have a goddamn kendo stick con confrontation here. And who would know it was the security guy at the TBS truck. There was a trailer, a trailer in the back door of the studio where the security guy that checked people in and blah, blah, blah. It was just the security guy there. It wasn't Doug Dillinger. The Dillinger story or thing. It was at the Clash of Champions in Asheville, but nevertheless, the security guy has seen this now because he sees wrestlers coming in every Saturday morning in cabs. He hadn't paid any attention and suddenly he sees, here's this whomp, whomp, whomp. And he looks at it and he said, what the fuck's going on? I said, this fucking guy won't give me this fucking, my fucking change. And he said, he's kicking my car. And I said, he pulled a fucking stick out on me. And the guy just said, Jim, go on in the fucking studio. You get the fuck out of here. And I got somebody kicking my car and get the fuck out of here. Go on in the studio. So I went in the studio and that fucking guy left mad. I knew we get some good cab stories out of this. Well, nevertheless, anyway, it's not a cab though. It's an Uber. But you know what Darby Allen story was there, don't you, Brian? A hogwash dog food. I better, much better. Good job. And dog food is what that bag of story was, but not the good dog food, the crummy dog food, the cheap dog food, the dog food that they try to sell you. It's easy and it, it's easy to serve and easy to store. And last forever, you can feed your dog. This would have been sitting in a closet for two years because it's full of fillers and synthetics and et cetera, et cetera. And I got to be quite honest with you, Brian, after a year or so, we have missed the baby and we are in the process of trying to figure out an adoption for a little blessed event here at Castle Cornette. Oh, wonderful. And so as a result of that, we don't have a candidate yet, but we're beginning a process. And as a result, we're checking into food and we found out about Sundays for dogs because Sunday can be every day of the week for your little pet poochie. It doesn't have, you know, over in the UK, they have the Sunday roast, the Sunday lie in and they have a big roast and a big feast or at least a feast to the level that their culinary efforts over there will take. I love you guys, but Jesus Christ, the blood pudding. But nevertheless, you don't want to feed your dog old Monday through Saturday shit. You want to feed your dog Sundays for dogs. You can have fresh and healthier. You can have easy to store and serve, but you don't have to choose anymore. You can have it all, baby. You can have Sundays for dogs because it was founded by a veterinarian and mother, Dr. Tori Waxman. I wonder if she's related to my old friend, Cat Collins. She's not. She's not. She's not related to Cat Collins, but she was seeing cats, dogs, see, they never got along. But Dr. Waxman got tired of seeing the so-called premium dog food full of fillers and synthetics like Jackie Fargo said. They were too synthetic. So she designed Sundays, air-dried real food, made in a human-grade kitchen, brought a human-grade kitchen. There's actually, you know, some people live in homes where the kitchen wouldn't actually qualify as human grade. But every bit of Sundays is clean and made from real meat, fruits and veggies with no kibble, which is basically floor sweeping, sawdust, possible fungal material, weird ingredients that you can't pronounce. We don't know exactly what is in those products. That's what's in some of these things. Well, you know, there's a lot of these things in the world, especially on the black market dog food market. Where, you know, in some states, if you buy dog food out of the back of a Chevy Caprice, it's like a death sentence. Compared to kibble or other brands out there, Sundays invest 50 times more in its ingredients to ensure premium quality because your doggy, he's a good boy or a good girl, deserves food made with care, not in the interest of cheapness and frivolity with their health. And you just scoop it and serve it. No freezer, no thawing, no prep, no mess, nutrient rich, clean food. Swammy, for example, Brian, has swammy showed any evidence of more energy, better mood, more calm and focus, a softer coat, less itching, no eye boogers, better shippoopy and a more cuddle, some atmosphere. Has swammy been out prowling around the neighborhood looking for female dogs to engage with in the age old dance of romance amongst the dogs under the full moon type of thing? Whether human or animal. Has he been humping your leg? Whether human or animal, Jim will take it too far when we talk about these things. But I will say, when we got the box from Sundays for Dogs, swammy immediately noticed it because it looks like a cereal box. And you open it up, there's a bag in there, the fresh food. He rejects a lot of food if he doesn't like it. He didn't reject this, he liked it. We've given him almost the entire box now of the first box that we've received. So dog approved. Oh Jesus Christ, what kind of fucking pig is your dog? Swammy approved, he's a little dog and he's not a pig, he's a nice dog. He's eating a whole god dang box there, smithers. For heaven's sake, let this dog exercise some kind of restraint or whatever, the little butter ball. Well, it'll make your dogs happy if swammy is someone who could stand in for your dog. He's very happy right now and you should check this out if you are a dog owner looking for a better option for food. Alrighty, or you're saying that swammy is now going to work as a stand in for dogs? What if the dog goes on vacation, you're leasing swammy out to sit there for a while and... I'm saying he's the representative of the dog community as we are talking about this. You and I are speaking about humans, he could speak for the dogs. I don't believe you can speak for the dogs by just nominating him the representative of the dogs. I think there needs to be some kind of election. Folks, what we're going to do here is we're going to run a campaign and possibly an election on our Sundays for dogs spots going forward. If someone has a candidate that wants to run against swammy, then please put them forward and we'll engage in serious debate here on the program going forward. But right now... You fight with swammy, ladies and gentlemen, you fight with me. I'll bring it. You want to challenge swammy's reign? I'll bring it. Well, I'm telling you, it's all about the voters. He's well fed. And what they desire. He's ready for a fight. He's well fed. He's been eating Sundays for dogs. He's been on the training program and that's what you can do, folks, right now. If you want to take care of your pooches, make the switch to Sundays. Go right now. It's Sundaysfordogs.com. Slash J-C-E-50 and you're going to use... You're going to get 50% off your first order. The code is J-C-E-50 at Sundaysfordogs.com. 50% off your first order. And see if little pooch or poochette does not indeed feel friskier and happier and lickier and all that type of thing. And also, and better smelling stool, I understand. The stool is the nice word they use for shit. And apparently stool smells better than shit. So if your dog is shitting right now, get some Sundays for dogs and it'll turn into stool. For the record, I don't think anyone's sniffing their dog's poop, but it says you're better stool. Well, you can't really... It says better stool, not better smelling stool. No, it'd be better if it didn't smell bad enough to gag a maggot off a gut wagon. I think they're talking about... Again, I don't want to talk too much about this, but they're not talking about the smell. They're talking about the overall poopiness. The texture... What are you, kind of a fucking stool expert? You wanted people to sniff it a second ago. What are you talking about? I'm saying that you've got a problem if you can't help but smell it. Even if you can taste it and your mouth is still closed. What? No. That's when it needs to be better. Let's get back... It needs to be better. Let's get back to a better option for your dog Sundays for dogs. One more time, Jim, and you'll be hearing more about them in the future here on the show. How can the listeners get this great deal? Sundaysfordogs.com, the code is J-C-E-50 at checkout. 50% off your first order. That's right. Sundaysfordogs.com, slash J-C-E-50. But Brian, now that we have fed the canine population, I thought of another thing I should've mentioned, that Bobby Eaton used to like to do when we would take cab rides, as he might've said. Again, I don't know how they do it these days. I haven't been in a cab... Probably the last time I was in a cab was in New York City 15 years ago, and you may have been somewhere around when I was venting about it. But 40 years ago, they had the radio and the cabs where the dispatcher, when you called on your phone, you called the fucking cab company and told them where you wanted the cab. And then they get on the radio that the cab driver has, like a CB radio type of radio, and they would radio the cab driver where to fucking go. Right? Is this revolutionary today for the kids? Do they understand this? For the kids, I don't know, but that's typically how it was done. It was a dispatch, and they would tell the cab drivers where to go to pick people up. But have we just blown people's minds if they're 20 years old with... They did what? Well, nevertheless... For some people, the idea that you would call in advance for a cab is different. You know, New York City, you just walk on a string and put your hand up and five people fight for you. But... Yeah, today... Anywhere else in the country you would call like an hour ahead and pray one would show up to your house or wherever you needed to be. Yeah. But anyway... So usually we're getting them at the airport or they're calling us somewhere at a venue at the other end or whatever, thankfully. We're not just prowling around people's neighborhoods usually. But sometimes, as I said, because somebody had to sit in the front, Bobby would put his bags in the trunk real quick when the guy first opened it up. Then while the guy's helping me and Dennis, we're handing him this, Bobby would jump in the front seat because we've been in enough cabs. You heard that radio. Apparently the way it worked was if the cab driver wanted to call the dispatcher, the cab driver would say his number. Like if he was cab 36, he'd key the microphone say 36. And then you'd hear the dispatcher, yeah, come on 36 or whatever, right? So Bobby was sitting in the front seat and he'd get the microphone, he'd press the key down, he'd go 24. You know, come in 24, 46. Come in 46, 16. And see how long he's doing for the fucking cab driver to either set down or the fucking dispatcher said, who the fuck is this? And it just, it started the trip off right. Years ago, I was in a cab in Long Beach. Like, you know, this is like 30 years ago or whatever. And the dispatch guy and the cab driver were like fighting with each other. Like over the thing. And it was the most, it was the most amusing thing. I mean, they were so serious that the driver was like angry and serious. And I thought it was the most entertaining thing I'd ever experienced. Fuck you. Fuck you. It's like I'm not even here. It's incredible. And I teased people earlier. I don't even know if it's on the YouTube channel, but at this point, because it's an old story, but when we had flown, we had a double shot because of a snow out date. I'm not going to go into all the details, but we had to do a show one night, January 87 in Richmond, Virginia at eight o'clock at the Coliseum. And then had to main event in a scaffold match with the road warriors and 830 show at the DC Armory in Washington. And because it was a makeup for a fucking date, it had been snowed out. And again, we had to fly the Crockett got a plane for like six of us. I don't remember how many, whatever the fuck was on. And they had cabs waiting. Again, this was all done by the skin of everybody's teeth. I can't believe we made these things. But we get in this cabin and the other guys, I think Dusty was on the show also. There was a different undercard. So it was only like the two main events. So the other guys getting their cabs and they're gone off and we're in our cab and we're taking off. And this guy's driving. We said DC Armory DC Armory. The man, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's not only driven us into it after 1520 minutes and it's already past 10 o'clock. Remember that was the night in this old shitty building, the DC Armory, the toilets backed up. And they had to take like a 45 minute intermission because all the plane was running late. We were on and then the fucking scaffold, they had to fucking build and the people were ready to riot and they wrote nasty letters. And meanwhile, we're in this fucking cab in a neighborhood somewhere. I'm looking at my watch. I said, buddy, do you know where you're going? Oh, yes. And he's like turned left and he went somewhere. He's lost, right? And he won't admit it. And finally he stops somewhere and he's trying to read the road sign. And I said, no, and this time I was in the front. Fuck this. And I got on the microphone. Hello. Hello, Mr. Cab Company. And the guy is, I said, I am in your fucking cab right now. One of your cabs and this guy's got us lost in somebody's neighborhood. And we're supposed to be at the DC Armory or we're all going to get fired. Can you tell this son of a bitch from where we are? And I gave him the cross street that we were at. We were at the corner of dipshit and fucked. And we need to get to the DC Armory. Can you tell this sorry son of a bitch driving this thing? How to get us there. And yes, and they talked to each other and the guy drove in silence, right? We were only like five or six or seven. I can't remember was like a few minutes. How many blocks. And we were getting out at the front door of the thing. The show started at 830. It's like fucking going on 1030 and we're still need to get in there and fucking change. And he had the nerve to tell us what the ride would be. And that's what Dennis was going to kill him. He was going to fucking throw him over the goddamn cab. And that's why I said, no, the ride is fucking free. We are paying you nothing. You're lucky he don't kill you. We'll see you later. Never. And we ran into goddamn building. And had a shitty scaffold match. I've if anybody can send me their tickets. Of that night, I'll send you your money back. How about that? Tell you how cheap tickets were back then. Hey, are you insinuating that I am penurious with a with a penny? I'm saying it's an easy deal to make for anyone who was at that baseball game in 1950 and upset. Let me know. I'll refund you 350. Hey, there was there was like six or 7000 people there that night. So I don't know how many of them still have their tickets tub now that may be another matter. Anyway, speaking of measuring. People, fans, viewership. They've changed. They put the candle back, Brian. They have changed the ratings back. The ratings of the wrestling programs are back up to where they were before because they changed the ratings back. And as we've been following this, everything was chugging along and then suddenly Mr. Nielsen and his kids came out with a brand new improved space age gourmet way to measure that's going to be better than ever. We can rebuild this better than ever before. And as soon as they instituted that whole wrestling programs fell off the fucking cliff. That was several months ago and it to the extent that even CW network complained specifically about their new method. And nobody was able to explain why the wrestling programs were the hardest hit a few others were various kinds but not to the degree of wrestling and it was almost like it was a fucking targeted hit. Then they finally decided what we're just going to just go back to the old way. And immediately all the wrestling numbers are back in the same place they fucking work. Just Brian, I will let you explain it in a more learned and scholarly way than I just did but I just explained it for the people who just now think that this whole goddamn deal is a bunch of bullshit. It's hard not to. The entire premise before any adjustments was such a crazy mathematical equation created by Nielsen. Then they change it after you accept this bullshit system that is completely inaccurate. They change it because they say they have a way to make it more accurate and count various ways of consuming media into the number. And then we heard complaints and again specifically about wrestling. And it was right around the time it wasn't even just that CW complained they had just made the NXT deal. They were expecting to deliver more to the advertisers. They did nothing wrong. And somehow they've made an adjustment and everything is crazy up now. And it makes a question what's the legitimate number, the number that they said was going to be the more accurate one or the adjustment or the number they said was going to be the more accurate one. Yeah, it's hard to say. Which of them which of the more accurate numbers are is more accurate. The fuck you know the idea that a W is up right now I actually do believe. I don't know what percentage up and again the numbers if the whole idea is so many of the audience members have moved over to Max. That doesn't explain growth in the numbers now from where they were with the other method but. AWS doing a better job now pleasing AWS fans than they were a year and a half ago a year ago whatever they're making their base happy now. Well yeah and I will say the same thing equally for WWE and a W I'm not picking on either one. It is not it's it's not a question though of whether anything is legitimately up or down it's a question of the same show suddenly does 150,000 more fucking people with the different rating method that it has for the last three months. Well, for instance, that's just there's something has been wrong somewhere and that's for both of these programs. Well, dynamite and smackdown I think both got a bump of almost a couple hundred thousand people. And it makes sense because they're the most widely viewed shows that are in this particular dogfight because Raw's on Netflix. I'm sorry go away I interrupted you. And not talking about raw because like you said it's on Netflix but WrestleNomics Brandon Thurston put together a graph here. The total viewership live in the same day. So this is what it was from September 22nd until January 25th with big data plus panel and then from January 26 to now a little over a month with big data and panel the new way. So TNA impact which had just begun on January 15th went from 172,000 average to 232. AW collision on TNT was averaging 266,000. It's now 478,000. That's a big jump. Dynamite on TBS went from 492 as the average to 651. NXT on CW went from 594 to 671. And finally smackdown on USA Network went from 1,095,000 on average to 1,219,000. So big improvements for wrestling. The biggest improvement is for collision. Which but let me ask you this question. What were those numbers before that when they were before they changed to the big daddy plus panel ratings to begin with those were about the numbers that they were doing before. Give or take I believe yeah. So what there has been some variation again of other different types of programming nothing nobody can still put their finger on why it's just wrestling that has this wild swing and this methodology. But again, none of these programs had the, the level of gain or loss that pro wrestling across the board did. If they did they upgrade their service just for fucking wrestling if wrestling is really the only thing it's affected to a appreciable degree. What the fuck are we all on about here with the we might as well just go back to send in 50 cents in the mail with a postcard fill in what you're watching and mail it back to us. The big adjustment was they added three more wrestling fans to the pool of people who let them know what they want. The mighty three were calling them. They watch all the wrestling shows apparently they may have put out a lot more boxes in in Cucamonga and parts of Campbell by the sea. But I guess what will stay abreast of this method now to see if there's any wild fluctuations or if possibly. And what has this done to the professional bull riding industry. If the bull riders are down they may be pissed off and say hey go back to the old way. That's right. Who else is this going to piss off now. Bull riders or as TKO call them when are they going to make some fucking money. But we'll see what happens with the bull riders. You know I guess just one last thing on this from my end for anyone who thinks we haven't been covering the ratings because AWS ratings are up. It's because we don't have the quarter hours. We can't do a segment talking about the ratings in our quarter hours. Yeah here's one here's one number for you overall. We don't know where it started. We don't know where it ended but here's just the number. I'd love to break it down. If anyone out there unofficially has quarter hours get in touch. We'd love to do more segments about the quarter hour breakdowns. They've locked those up like the recipe over at KFC. That was right around the same time too right. Right when they made the big adjustment all of a sudden it was like who is this guy reporting these numbers. Let's shut that down. Doesn't mean the numbers went away. Has anybody seen that guy. Tony's still getting quarter hours. Well but has anybody seen that guy that was leaking them since then or has he been dealt with. No comment. Well speaking of people being dealt with apparently Netflix has been dealt with Brian. They're dealt out of this paramount is now going to get WBD because they've not only offered more money at actually. They've offered like 10 times the value of the fucking company but it's being guaranteed by the rich multi hundred billionaire fuck that owns it Ellison. Who is a crony of Trump's and so he can get the approval in the criminal enterprise that runs the country. But paramount for a staggering amount of money is getting all of WBD. I don't see how it's it's possible that they're even going to be able to make the debt service much less make a profit on this deal. But besides wrestling just for a second. Our media in the United States is constricting and for nefarious purposes. CBS News is already compromised because it's under this guy's umbrella and he's a Trump Ian. And already CBS News has been gutted and the people with integrity have started to quit. Now CNN will be under the control of the same umbrella. And you won't be able to trust CNN they won't be able to speak freely. Because of their ownership so are they trying to turn that into another Fox News. But they're going to be in control of silencing multiple news operations before the 2028 elections even before possibly the midterms who knows. So combined with the voter suppression and the gerrymandering districts to cheat for the Republicans they're doing the full court press to steal this thing. And this is going to be a big part of it. There are now going to be very few major network news outlets or news stations in this country that you can trust tell the truth about Trump. But as for the wrestling. This is. It's better Brian help me it's better. For Tony in terms of Netflix, not owning it because if they don't change anything then Tony will still be on these networks and HBO Max or whatever the fuck. But they're going to go so far in debt. Are they going to spend the money they have spent on Tony cons wrestling. To steal. You know, it. Yes, it's several hundred thousand people but it's not a few million people is never going to be. And you can't make the case that it potentially will be. What is that going to be worth it to them to a company that's in debt to the point where the grandkids of people that run the thing are never going to get out of. I don't think it'll matter. Because I think they'll be in debt one way or the other. The price tag for a W content is relatively cheap for fresh 52 weeks of content. Pretty cheap. It's good for a W but it's cheap for what they pay for content. The bigger issue will be. I don't know if you call it conflict of interest or. A sudden conflict. But it's going to be when power amounts relationship with TKO affects. AEW and again, I don't know and I don't want to. Intimate that I do. I don't know all the details about how this works now. In terms of the Warner Brothers Discovery. Nine plus percent of AEW. Their television contract. And anything going forward. I mean, this is kind of all new ground. It's positive for Tony con and it's negative for Tony con. There's a lot of question marks right now. There are people that think the Allison kid is like a Tony con of media. All of a sudden. No. I mean, think about it. Just some billionaires kid all of a sudden is going to run the biggest studio. So I don't know what to think about all that, but. It may push forward what Tony con probably has to do long term for viability, which is. Have his own platform. And really have that be where again, if we're talking about a fan base. Where 140,000 of them are buying the pay per views every month. I know Dave Meltzer said that he did his own research and it's like 140,000 different people each month. Get the fuck out of here. Oh, it's the same people buying these shows. They're loyal to AEW. If that audience would support a Tony con website, I say Tony con website and AEW ring of honor hub. Where maybe Tony could buy more content and quite frankly, it's what he should have been doing the last few years is purchasing as much classic content as he could. That's what's going to be Tony cons saving grace for a long term survivability of AEW, I think. I don't see how he could. Get people to pay to cover his costs. Yeah. To cover the costs of, you know, and again, yes, the program may be cheap in comparison to other programming that they might get, but they also might run into some guy that just don't want it no more. We don't know, but you always risk running into the person that thinks wrestling is WWE and anything else is second rate. Whether they know anything or not. Well, the or the person who thinks WWE is second rate, they're just have disdain for the whole thing. We've found plenty of those. And, you know, as you get it just depends, but the paramount enterprise is now going to own so many things in so many different networks, so many different clicks of your cable box. So many means of, you know, dissemination. You know, that you won't really nobody will really even know that these 15 or 20 TV networks, so they may be why everything from cartoon network to goddamn CNN is going to be under the same umbrella. And, you know, you don't know what changes are going to come up with that type of thing. Maybe AEW won't be big enough for them to necessarily worry about. They got bigger fish to fry. Just leave it as it is. I think that's exactly what it'll be until they get a phone call from Nick Khan or Ari Emmanuel up the ladder from Nick Khan. Then we'll see what happens. But if it's hey, you're carrying our UFC shows. Why are you carrying some other companies wrestling shows? You should be getting stuff from us. That's what it'll be. And didn't they pay over a billion dollars for the UFC rights? I believe so. On the last deal. And again, UFC, I've seen them featured on CBS Mornings. We're fucking Gale King funds over Beyonce. All of a sudden they have UFC on that show. So they've spent a lot of money on UFC. So we shall see. UFC. We shall see what the future will bring for all these new networks under the same umbrella. And unfortunately, you know, the people on the outsides, the umbrella always get a little bit on them, Brian. I guess that's the thing when you talk about AEW and you try to picture a future without Warner Brothers Discovery and you have to start thinking about that. Who's going to pay them anything in that range for the broadcast rights? What other rights are they going to want? Are they going to expect an ownership stake like Warner Brothers Discovery got? What can Tony do on his own? Again, it's not some small budget wrestling show. It's it's WWE level budget at times. Certainly roster size and how much they're getting paid. It's going to be an interesting period forward for AEW. Again, they do have a large part of their audience that's transactional. How do you really make that work so that you don't have to rely on some other network? I don't know. You know what I miss? I miss the days when a regular person could become a multi-millionaire wrestling promoter. Because now to be a wrestling promoter, you already need to be a multi-millionaire. And there's pretty much no chance that anybody else is going to become a go from a multi-millionaire to a billionaire in a wrestling business again. You either are already one or you ain't going to make it. But it's just ridiculous. It has gotten to this point that it is just ridiculous. And and now we did all I'll close up with this. We did the discussion sometime back. Where could any other not just a W but any wrestling promotion that wanted to try to prosper and grow outside the WWE umbrella and challenge them or whatever. What where could they go to get any kind of deal? What networks platforms interested in wrestling and have any money to spend and have any viewership speak of. And right now, Tony Khan is on pretty much the only other platform that is not already doing business with the WWE or that you would want to be on to begin with if you were really a big deal. Did I do I forget anybody that we left out? There's no place else to go to make a big enough offer to be a big enough player to get a big enough audience to do anything. Is there? I always think there's a way, but it also depends on the people and a lot of different things. I don't know. You know, it's interesting when you talk about the Sinclair Broadcasting getting back into wrestling thing. You know, if they're doing a deal with NWA for Roar or for broadcast and talking to other small companies about having their shows on some of their channels. It tells you something because they sold Ring of Honor and it wasn't for a lot of money. It wasn't going to change anything for Sinclair. It's a major company. They just didn't want to own the wrestling company. But now it's a few years later and they realize we missed the wrestling numbers. We missed the wrestling viewers. They're regular. They come back every week. So there's still that value there, but you know, as everything gets more fragmented on a smaller level and on a bigger level, everything's consolidated into very few homes. You know, homes being paramount being a home. It'll be interesting to see what kind of opportunities can open up for someone. But again, it always comes down to who are the promoters? Who are the bookers? I hate to say this, but there aren't a lot of people out there who you would take seriously. No. There's plenty of people promoting independent wrestling. And if they walked into your business, you wouldn't think, oh, this is a serious human being. You would think, who's this slob? So I think, you know, that's one of the big differences today versus in the past, even independent promoters in the past. Try to put on the heirs. Try to fool people to think that they have money, just something, but it's a different world. Well, but Sinclair is going to find out. Here's one thing is they owned the thing and we still couldn't get, you know, that we couldn't get them to give a cripple crab a crutch. But they're going to find out that that level of small time wrestling, they're not going to have control over. They're not going to have a piece of, they're not going to have ancillary income from. They're just going to hope the local station sells time. That ain't going to fly unless they're going to be more involved. And even then we saw what happened last time. So I don't hold out a ton of hope. They got great TV real estate. But if you've got a show like I haven't seen the NWA in a long time and I probably won't change that. But that show in with little local promotion and support at the grassroots level for the stations, which is from the stations, which is what we tried to gin up in a variety of places. It ain't going to. It's going to be a very negligible difference. Hey, on the topic of wrestling television shows, if we can call it that. What are your thoughts on the idea that Tony Khan is going to have a ring of honor do a studio show in Jacksonville at the television station? Oh, good Lord. Between the fact that none of those guys have ever done a studio show. And probably few of them have ever been in a television station and by the studio is in the station. You got to interact with all the other professional TV people and their business guests who are coming in. And suddenly here's 40 fucking wrestlers and this whole operation. There's going to be some kind of fucking lawsuit. I don't see how they can possibly do. What they do in an arena in a. That must be a hell of a size television studio in Jacksonville or else wise, nobody's going to be able to jump off the top row. We'll see how it looks. But I say it's I'm sure the station is friends with the Tony Khan Empire since they're in Jacksonville and he probably. Spares no expense to give them a nice production contract to do this show so that he can. Drive down from home and. Play wrestling on another night of his goddamn life. This guy is going to blow up. This is what he's built for. This is all he dreams about. This is everything for him. How do you think Ian Rick of Monty will do as a studio commentator, which is obviously a very different job than being in an arena. I didn't know he was going to be the announcer, but. I thought he was still the ring on a ring. Hey, I thought he was still the Ring of Honor TV commentator. Maybe I'm wrong. Well, I don't know. But as I said, I haven't seen the show, but I think he'll do fine. He's a smart guy, a good, well spoken, quick on the. You know, verbal command. I think that. That should be fine for him as a transition. I don't know about all the boys, not. And girls, the talent. Not being able to, you know. Contain themselves to a small environment of that nature. And also as well as figure it out, well, they're probably only going to have cameras on two sides. If it's a normal television studio and the whole nine yards, but. It's something for Tony where he can he can be close to one of his. One of his collections. Guys, we have some news we're going to be doing Ring of Honor no longer from the arena. We're going to be in a television studio. All right, great. I guess Tony will be too busy. Also will be in Jacksonville right down the street from Tony. And you know what that is, don't you, Brian? 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No I have not heard a thing about Teddy Hart maybe in a couple years. They just did you hear about apparently Davey Boy Smith Jr. Bulldog son is on a tour in Canada with a Canadian wrestling Federation of Sum description and apparently somebody had broken into the somebody's car and stole Davey Boy's bag and his dad's Hall of Fame ring was in it and etc. Well they the guy tried to pawn the ring so the pawn shop guy knew what was up because it had gotten publicity they called the cops they got the guy they got Davey Boy Jr. stuff back but at one of the Canadian tour events Teddy Hart just showed up and just wandered in I guess to visit. Oh kid I didn't even know he was out or about her you know and I don't know did they ever put him in I don't know I don't know where he's been or what he's been doing or what his the legal dispensation of his last brushes with trouble were but there was a picture on Twitter of him standing next to Davey Boy Jr.'s picture table and I guess autographing something or whatever but apparently at this show he comes in he starts doing this he starts making a scene to the point where people believe that he's trying to get attention or start trouble or he's trying to do something and it came down to BJ Anas was a guy who married one of Stu Hart's daughters and he was he's so he had a gym BJ Anas did a lot of the guys worked out at the gym apparently there was a friend a bodybuilder who was a friend of BJ Anas is there that gave Teddy Hart the option I will either drive you to a this was the term psychiatric ward I will either drive you to a psychiatric ward or the police can do it Wow and and Teddy chose well go ahead you do it then and they took him off to a god damn mental institution or a mental health facility I don't know how they term it up there and the uh for when you take a wrestler to the a rubber room at the puzzle factory what is the terminology yeah Vince didn't correct that officer he said you need medical attention you need to go to the hospital a medical facility yeah yeah no it's a medical facility pal but yeah so Teddy in and out quick come back so I no word on whether they advised that he stay there at the psychiatric ward or not yeah did they take his cats that's another question I would have remember they had that documentary series about it was the crazy oh yeah ever oh my god that was the greatest I think he was catless on this experience it you know homelessness is one thing but catlessness I was afraid you were going in another direction because I just saw there was something I think I saw a post from Diana Hart saying that like Davey Boy Smith's Paul of Fame ring and a few other ring warm things and Davey Boy Smith things that the family had were stolen I was afraid you were back to say Teddy Hart stole them no no no I'm sure he's probably sold all the Hart family memorabilia that he can get his hands on already how good was he when you saw him really early on when WWE first tried to do something with him because he had all that buzz from being a teenager doing flips in a ring in Canada how good could he have been if he had had his head on oh he was a tremendous athletic performer and he could do he could do stuff in the ring the flip back flip off the high cage and land on his feet and all that stuff and all the spots as well as actually work actual wrestling to you know some degree that's not the issue the issue is what would have what did hold him back to some extent but not nearly as much as his weirdness and mental status was that he's still so small but again he could have been a you know young kids masked superhero in the WWF or you know whatever the fuck or they could if he as a member of the Hart family and being that talented a performer he would have never been on a Bret Hart level but he certainly would have been used on the roster in a very comfortable position but he's just nuts and unsavory and whatever all the other things are that are wrong with him huh good luck teddy good luck teddy as you're charging up San Juan hill all right should we should we go on now to speaking of charging San Juan hill Denver is the mile high city i wonder if they had to charge all the way up the fucking mountain should we go to AEW i guess is what i'm saying uh well yeah i guess it's that time of day let's get to AEW dynamite from Denver Colorado the mile high city better home for they had a hot crowd i gotta say they had a crowd that was really into what they were doing but let's talk about that's that's what oxygen deprivation will do for people make them like AEW wrestling is you know the farther up you can get them the higher they are the more they're gonna like this shit so they started again with the comments from you know some people in uh the main events or what they call the main events including the comments from the girls tag teams and more on that later and a package for the FTR and hardly boys issue we're now apparently on collision FTR beat up the buckaroos's dad again he put his hands on them first did you see the clip they showed well yes but you know the point is did they they beat this you remember they beat him up and he got either a rotten or a fake juice job like five years ago oh that was Jericho and MJF yeah that's there you go and i don't they ever got even for that either but this time they beat up dad shoved mom and pal drove the brother and boy does the brother look like every lump you'd ever see walking down a street again that hairline that famous buck's family hairline but and again the the the daddy buck is no no actor no thespian but tonight they're mad and they're gonna mile high madness because the buckaroos are mad oh color me frightened but between all of that and the announcer billboards and the plugs they're five minutes into the show and we hear moxley music and i'm like jeez every week now the first thing we see from these people is dick the boozer and this was an eliminator match with el clown and i'm not again i try i started watching they tried chain wrestling and it looked like two drunks playing twister and slow motion with the oh here i put my foot up and then i pushed down and your knee goes down and then you do this and like left hand red they weren't even laying in the shoulder tackles they just stopped when they ran into a guy i don't know if it was faker or more boring like was the boring but worse than the fakery or the fakery worse than the boringness the fakery was worse because i wasn't as boring because i actually am entertained by el clown he wrestles differently than everyone else so i kind of dig that moxley sucks and i know that a lot of people get mad every time i point out that his work is terrible and it looks bad he doesn't lay things in and they go well you're not a wrestler you don't know i know more than you i know more than you he sucks he's the worst he's so bad and i know more than all of you and i agree with you no brag just fact so 16 minutes it took for moxley to beat a masked midget that will never mean anything anywhere and it was just fake and the fakeness of the fakery of it so then what if i may ask you a question about this i have to say the buck's dad looks like social worker weyland mercy but what do you think about them beginning it seems like i mean i could be wrong i don't have all my notes in front of me but i think the first match on dynamite has been a moxley match for the last two three weeks right it's like every week every week what are they trying to do with that well i guess tony thinks that because he's they've decided to lie in a different fashion about the ratings now that we know that all the numbers are bullshit made up that what he's been doing the past couple weeks have been working so he decided to keep doing it so we'll probably see this for you know remember when he was convinced that people wanted to tune in at the top of the hour and see pockets so we had to endure the company so we're going to be doing mascot for 20 minutes every week at nine o'clock again it is important to know god damn principle it is important to know we're not getting quarter hours tony is so and i'm out of moxley fan and i like to think that people see him and want to throw their tv out the window sc tv style but if he is moving the numbers the only person yeah i'm not the only person but tony would know if he was or wasn't either moving him or holding him but that's the thing is you can't move the numbers if you're on first river everybody traditionally in aew since the dawn of the the show when we were getting to quarter hours the first 15 minutes is the god damn biggest quarter hour so is that not a self-fulfilling prophecy is it the biggest quarter hour because moxley's in it or is he just putting moxley in it but it'd be the biggest quarter hour anyway which came first the plumber or the fucking boozer that's moxley math and that's and that's why you're going to end up with goose eggs every time all right swerve strickland is a heel now after he laid out kenny last week drove him through the announcer's desk so apparently kenny could go to japan because he's been committed to go to a video game convention of some description is that what it is or some type of some type of japanese culture meeting that they go to he's doing something with video games so they did another injury angle for something that everyone knew he was doing already how long is this god damn convention gonna take six weeks why do you need to hurt a guy who's going to be in another country for 10 days how we can't be reactive toni said no actually you know what i kind of need you here right now i kind of i'm trying to do something here it would really help if you were around could kenny deal with that can you say okay i'll sacrifice my personal desires this one time and help the company in in all in all fairness they did release the information he got a contractual commitment he signed a contract he's got to be there of course he signed a contract with toni for millions of dollars or he'll get sued in japan well you know that's where he'd rather be than anywhere else so he don't want to fucking shit where he eats you know you said swerve turn heel we'll talk about this promo maybe the most refreshing thing in his whole thing for me was nana turn heel yes and and actually sounds like he he's trying to mean it here and but here's the thing didn't swerve kind of turn babyface because they started cheering him when he was a heel before and they kind of wanted him to turn and he did and then you you know fucking apologized and buried to hatch it with page to a degree about the house burning and the blood drinking and all that stuff at least so they could coexist baby terrorizing baby terrorizing mutual respect though over the baby terrorizing and the house burning but now for the last few months he's had really done anything important or what do you think big so now he lays out kenny and he's fucking saying he's gonna be the world champion and he's still he's gonna the most dangerous guy and in aw and the people are cheering him because they think oh now he's back to being a fucking winner again this was still they booed when he directly said i fucked kenny omega and he asked with a barbed wire dildo they booed at that but otherwise they cheered pretty much whatever he did and they're still saying swerve's house and even the ones that are cheering for kenny or booing him when he talks bad about kenny they're not pissed not really they're just oh we don't want to hear you say that but with swerve would he he razzed back at one of the hecklers and the fans popped huge loved it that was the biggest reaction of everything he said yeah your mama i think that's what he said your mama and they went crazy yes and otherwise it's the same promo as always he's dangerous he's gonna live his life with no regrets he really wants to be the most dangerous man in aw and the fans cheer that idea you see that's the thing the whole promo the idea was and i thought it was one of his better promos it should have been shorter you shouldn't have had a break where you stop talking you could hear dead silence that shouldn't have happened but the idea that this is all because he's upset that kenny omega said someone else was the most dangerous man in aw that is the stupidest reason i could think of i couldn't even remember who he was talking about like who did kenny say was the most dangerous like it's dangerous for a bushy to move but he's not the most dangerous like who did kenny say i had no idea i didn't even remember i'm trying to say it may have been brody king i think later on they revealed it was brody king because brody king well yes yes well he well i just everybody wants to be the most dangerous and and really on this show with the number of injuries that's the title is way up in the air as to who the most dangerous son of a bitch in this fucking crew is the most dangerous is the ring it well it's not hurting people the ring is not hurting anybody it's fuck it's the law of gravity that's to blame here my normal laugh will be back soon i can't laugh yeah i don't want you to wheeze over it uh but that's swerve by turning heel and laying out kenny as i think is kind of made himself a stronger babyface overall that's what's happened every time remember he turned heel on keith lee i forgot when him and rick ross and the mogul associates of the tattooed guys who vanished when they started that was a heel stable for swerve against babyface keith lee who's apparently still plotting his comeback we'll see what happens there and then he was the heel whose entire gimmick was i wear a coat and then the fans started cheering him like even in the adam page feud the fans were cheering him and they turned him babyface and we got to see the highlights and the lowlights of that the house burning really bothered him he uses that video in his entrance way they love to say swerve's house that's it that's the secret you just got to come up with a catch phrase or a song with whoa anything like that that's all you need nowadays and a coat but that's at the end of the promo the fans pretty much cheered so okay you were with you and i get this this company has a problem making effective babyfaces because the only thing that the fans come to see is people fucking use flamethrowers to cause chaos they don't believe any of it it's all horseshit it's fake they don't care most of the time who wins or loses except oh well he's not nearly the worker that so and so is he shouldn't have won that type of thing but there's no emotional investment they just want to see people do stunts and risk getting hurt and the heels are more interesting in that environment well the one babyface those fans do always get behind is kenny omega and he's the one that keeps sending off or keeps having to be taken off tv again i'll reiterate though i thought this was a better promo from swerve it went too long but even the little thing of like standing on the desk as opposed to just being in the ring doing it it gave it a different look and you know i thought i thought it wasn't bad well i again i'm not even saying the promo was bad i'm saying it's the same it's the same thing yeah and again the premise is ridiculous and i really like seeing heal manna nana getting on the mic and have some attitude has been needed for a long time and let's see if they'll let the manager actually do something to screw a major babyface out of something in a raw way without acting funny about it that would be nice that'd be interesting maybe that would lead to some manager in this company being established as something other than a fucking court jester but again with swerve and i don't think i was going to say with swerve with the promo i'm not saying he didn't deliver it well a lot of times it's meandering but it's the same there's there was no real change in attitude or demeanor or emotion from the way he normally talks in in terms of the delivery of he's gone from supposedly being a big babyface to the guy just hospitalized one of your heroes he there's not a lot of difference in these people when they turn from one side to another what needs to happen for prince nana to become king nana he's been prince for a long time he haven't the king needs to die who's the king no no if king no no dies then prince nana becomes king nana but he can't do it yet no no all right well back to the land of no no awd dynamite uh pockets beat game kid and kevin knight beat man sewer or did game kid beat pockets one of the other i don't care jesus christ if i wanted to watch bad indy wrestling i'd be watching the local ovw show i watched the man soar match who did he wrestle again i forgot who was right kevin night kevin night who's really good but i was actually really impressed by man soar in the match he did a lot of little things that made it more than a match that needs a lot of bumps or high spots i thought he was really good in there you don't watch he can't growl it's not worth the growl if you didn't see it it's such a silly preposterous look and gimmick and it's like row worthy the whole night he he should this guy should have fucking gotten a goddamn full face tattoo anything to separate himself from the gimmick he had in the wwe and instead he's perpetuating it so he's he's toast for anybody ever taking him seriously ever again anywhere good match so then at nine o'clock tony shavonny was in the ring and once again we call out mjf and hangnail adam page two last week they confused the shit out of us with what what they were trying to plainly state was that the stipulation that page wants is a texas death match and mjf was willing to give him a match if page agrees if he loses he'll never challenge for the world title again but then they were going to think about it for a week and mjf is going to come up with his counter proposal well if mjf got a counter proposal then why did they have to page should not have to give up ever wrestling for the world title again unless mjf agreed to the texas death match because then page is giving that up and agreeing to potentially be an mjf's gimmick but do you see why this doesn't make sense yeah i saw why it didn't make sense last week where it was page would never go for the belt again and they'll decide and then the fans can decide but they've already decided none of this and then you decide but the point is unless mjf was going to be forced to take the texas death match and i'll put my future shots at the world title on the line that was the deal that it shouldn't be i'll put my world title shots on the line no matter what you say and then how about we have a texas death match well you come up with a stipulation and we'll flip a fucking coin well then what did it fucking accomplish for you to put your fucking title shots on the line anyway today we're going to find out what the stipulation is or was or is supposed to be or will be and again tony stood mute in the corner mjf laid out the premise again a little bit better than last week and said he had a fair way to decide it's heads there or tails is going to be the texas death match and heads is a no dq for me match where i can't get disqualified but you can and this took long this went a while and again adam page is just a bowl of oatmeal as a baby face just standing there just fucking bleh and then page said okay to the coin flip but then he had to recite his cool teenage drama class material that he's memorized imagine if i'm tearing the very flesh from your body i might put barbed wire in your mouth and tear your tongue out you call yourself the devil but this hell is mine oh for christ sake he got the fans to chant dog shit and that was kind of apropos for this amateur hour type of thing but he went on forever and he calls for the coin flip and mjf flips the coin lands on the mat tells tony shabani to call it picks it up shows it to tony puts it back in his pocket and he won and he starts to leave but page says no wait a minute give me the quarter and mjf has said uh you've you've lost i'm out of here he tries to leave and there's brody king and bandido and kevin night and spitball i'm spras did hong kong fu he can walk up right we're in a title belt that thing weighs 15 or 20 pounds i can't believe he can stand up under it and then they fucking running back to the ring and brody king gets the coin and it was two-headed and then immediately tony shabani who's been standing in the fucking quarter for 15 minutes comes back to life and says oh tony conja said since you cheated it's a texas death match so as long as these baby faces are all such dip shits and uninteresting and the booking is is so black mjf has nothing to work with and it's getting to he's just doing the same thing now because he's got the same thing to fucking work with help me i can't help you i've not like this program i did not like the segment last week i really didn't like it this week again to me it's to me it's counterproductive to make mjf weak and that's all they've done he's a weak top heel who's behaving like a mid-card heel and that's a problem he's always outsmarted he's always acting like he's scared or he's upset they go after his emotions adam page is an awful promo wrestling observer promo of the year like in a vacuum where there's no one else doing promos anywhere they don't sound real like you said i mean you know i hear them and they sound ridiculous and then when you recite it from what you've written down it sounds even worse so yeah i'm not into this at all i don't think it helps anyone to make mjf a weak heel adam page is such a pathetic babyface yet the aw fans just sop it up they love it but this is not good and these segments have not done anything to help these guys adam page gives like you said a speech to make him feel cool mjf i'm guessing he has a lot of stuff he wants to get in there too because again last week we saw the yelling mjf the calm mjf the whispering mjf you know this is obviously all of their ideas with tony this is what they want to do they're happy with it but god damn these segments have been long and awful mjf should just cut them down you want to act you all high and mighty you were a teacher mr waltz what were you doing taking pictures of marty scurl that would end it all that would end it all like that but no this shit's been terrible i i'm a big mjf fan but well this feud has been a miss and these segments i think have been counter productive especially if you want mjf to be a productive heel long term there he shouldn't be made to look this week and if you want someone to be the foil send john cruz out there to have him do the fucking coin thing and get scared by all the heels it doesn't help yes they want all that they already beat him up and ran him off remember that's right i didn't remember that's right he might have been interesting but here's the problem what are they doing here i understand now we all understand in hindsight what kody did with that stipulation i can never challenge for the world title he and then he went over and he got to what was it the tnt title he was the first whatever the the point is kody and his mind knew i don't want to be the world champion of anything because i got this angle about finishing my story in the back pocket and he did that at the time telling people he didn't want the people to think because he was an executive that he was pushed himself to the top it was so he wouldn't dampen his fucking angle and it was brilliant of him page has no such fucking realistic aspirations they can't it would be insanity to make page the champion again and just gut and derail any weak momentum mjf might have since he's been back at two months ago and he barely is one he barely wins anything and to but but then if you if you have mjf win and page can't challenge for the world title again then these people expect them to hold that stipulation forever and not milk it for a year or two and then have a hot heal have a serious issue with him and goddamn the fans demand that he break his word that type of thing that would have gone on in the territory days they'll be mad if he goes back on his word even if he gets screwed around by a healer he's the babyface because these fans have been taught that strange fucking things so what are they doing here it would make him the heal it would be his heel turn if he said that now in a world title shot yeah well maybe part of the issue is adam page the milk toast cowboy 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going on in the arcadian vanguard world this fine week and then we'll get back to tony con's delirium trimmings i'm not feeling that great today folks so let's do this quick the wrestling news wherever you find your favorite podcast or the wrestling news dot com this week on stick the wrestling with john mcadam a look at 40 years ago 1986 in the nwa gencrocket promotions mcadam pod.com wherever you find your favorite podcast shut up and wrestle with brian solman an interview with wrestling promoter gary jester hear that today suaw pod.com and of course the 605 super podcast the mothership go through the archive even you had no effort on that go through the archive 605 pod.com available wherever you find your favorite podcast your lung capacity will be back by next week well speaking of capacity and the brain's capacity to process what's going on the women's tag team championship match on aew it ended abruptly with an unplanned ending there was a potential injury that now understand is not that severe there were a lot of other potential injuries that did not materialize in this thing and there was some controversy afterwards over the silliest shit i've ever heard so let's do this in order let's talk about the match maegan brain and panellope pit stop we're going to challenge willow nightingale at harley cameron for the women's tag team title and without trying to be overly critical or potentially verbally cruel to anybody let's face it maegan if she had anything she'd be in the nxt program with looking like that with that size but she is we ought to call her maegan magee she's tom magee she can she has a great look and she can do athletic things but she's not good she's not smart she's awkward she can't put it together in a wrestling context and i think when we talked about her earlier she's been around for years now not months in various places panellope pit stop she is the female jarny jonnie gargano have you noticed this even when she got hurt her facial expression didn't change she is robotic and lifeless she does all this stuff but she's going through the motion of doing it i gotta go here i gotta go there i gotta do this she's thinking about it you can see it on her face but it's indie level girl stuff harley cameron should be the star of her own musical comedy variety show she is not a wrestler and poor willow is is the only one of the four that should even be trying to do this to be quite honest with you and she was handicapped because everybody else is greener than a pepper tree so just the first minute it was awkward it was sloppy it was too complicated they were all running through a routine these spots when they think of them they also in their mind think of them doing them correctly or gracefully or fluidly but they sound good when they think about it but then they're just shoving each other into things and running hither and yawn and landing on people and i wrote before somebody even got hurt somebody's gonna get hurt nobody tells them to calm down and just do the shit that they can do well there is nobody say wait a minute you're just running around back and forth doing things to each other with no structure and trying to do all this shit just calm down and do the shit you do well if we can find what those things are did you see willy willy willy willy nightingale and harlow cameron they did the double back centon splash right on top of poor penalty what the fatter her expression didn't change then which he got 350 pounds dropped on her fucking tits and and then there was a spot where they double clothes line both the heels over the top rope backwards and of course the heels line up and wait in position grabbing the rope ready to jump for like five seconds and the faces run and do it and penelope almost broke her leg on that one when she went over the top rope backwards she landed with one foot on the apron the other one dangling and kicked off and dropped to the floor i've never seen i don't know what it was there was a fake four way on the floor it was like a video of marx playing wrestling and then they did the spot where megan did a dive and then held both the baby faces and think about this brian the heels are the one doing the dive and then doing the beautiful moonsault off the top rope backwards why are the heels doing all this shit it's the baby faces that are supposed to do the exciting graceful fucking moves and the heels are supposed to fucking cheat you idiots you gotta hospitalize yourself you don't even know what side you're on so megan does the dive holds both the baby faces and penelope the heel does a moonsault off the top rope onto the floor onto both of these fucking people but she goes right in between them and landed on the floor and that was their break spot so they went to the break but you could see her get up they had picture in picture she got up and started walking but then apparently she had heard her ankle and they were checking her out and by the time they came back from the break penelope was gone and it was willow making a comeback on megan and then harley didn't come back in until the heel girl manager just jumped in out of nowhere and hit willow with a title belt to cause a disqualification so penelope heard herself on the moonsault and had an ankle injury and they just took her away somewhere and they called an audible for the heel girl manager to jump in and just do a disqualification why is a heel girl doing a moonsault onto the baby faces instead of the other way around to begin with and more importantly why are all these fucking girls being allowed to do shit that's going to cause them serious fucking injury that they when i say somebody ought to be able to tell you can't do that i don't mean tell them you're not allowed to do that i mean tell them you cannot perform that correctly so before we go into the controversy what do you think about this fucking match when the match was a mess you hit on a lot of the realities at the aww women's division i think megan bane is pretty good not saying she's great not saying she's ready to carry something but she's good and she's got size and stature she shouldn't talk i agree with you on willow i thought that about willow from the first time we started seeing her i thought she was great and i think she can go to wwe i'm as big a fan of harley cameron the entertainer as anyone i know she could do the spinning you know thing into the dbt but everyone does that but she's not a wrestler and panellope has been there since day one she'll probably be there as long as she wants to be but is she a wrestler i mean at this point how many times has she gotten hurt didn't she get hurt doing like the same thing or am i thinking of someone else i died for the four a few months back but that's part of the problem aww has some talented women wrestlers mixed in with women that aren't ready for nxt so it's like a weird combo you know you have some people that could be in wwe that people that shouldn't even be on tv so yeah i saw this this was a mess we'll talk about the controversy i guess as you put it but yeah i mean what did you expect what did you i mean you said you wrote down someone was going to get hurt you knew it wasn't going to be a classic what did you expect well somebody got hurt so now apparently there's another controversy out of this because harley cameron after after the match and people found out that panellope had hurt her ankle from doing the moonsault because she went right in between willow and harley because of course she wasn't looking it was another blind backwards moonsault like everybody does these days they just you know there's oh they'll be there to catch me but so many people blamed harley cameron for not catching panellope that they ran her off twitter apparently she deactivated her twitter account by the following day or whatever because so many people were how you should have caught her what the fuck that's the problem you have a bunch of green talent whether male or female doing shit that's over their heads and you can see on on the the camera angle that was broadcast when old panellope starts going backwards and her arms fly up old harley went up gotta go up oh shit she went to the right and then she realized she should go to the left but willow wasn't it any further underneath her than goddamn harley was and meghan pain was in between them at the start well she had to back up or she would have got clobbered by her own fucking partner which is another part of the stupid thing about holding the two standing there anyway the point is number one who cares that much about panellope to harass this other poor girl and secondly no it wasn't her fault anymore than anybody else that misses any of these goofs diving anyway because how the fuck are you supposed to know where they're going where they're gonna land especially if you're green you zig and you don't have time to zag back this was just one of these stupid things that happens when all of these people get together start jumping off a shit onto piles of people sometimes they land and sometimes they don't but to harass harley like she did anything wrong or especially on purpose is ridiculous yeah by the way even if harley had caught her he would have wiped harley out yeah harley camera does not someone should be catching flying women yeah let me let me catch this 125 pound out of control spinning fucking human body while i only weigh 125 pounds myself and i'm standing still i mean she should have fucking dove out of the way made no bones about it but this is again it's another one states where the fans don't understand and they don't they don't get it because the same there's people screaming at harley for doing this but something we didn't even talk about except it's apropos now how what was it on raw last week with julia and rhea rippley and i don't like power now cordon loves rhea so everybody else has got to be wrong no bullshit go back if anybody cares enough maybe you're one of the people who ran harley cameron off twitter but if anybody wants to go back and look at the moon salt off the top and the landing in between the two girls and ascertain a blame of that and then look at it side by side with what julia did to rhea rippley when we talk about that's not working stiff it's working dangerous or that's not working snug it's working recklessly that was a textbook example it would have been a fist fight lock room in the territory days with what julia and i'm going to explain yeah you got to describe this i don't know if everyone knows what you're talking about well i'm going to i'm going to also explain why you can't do this julia had rhea rippley on her knees in front of her with a surfboard hold on her so rhea is on her knees facing away from julia and julia has a hand a hold of both of rhea's wrists with her arms behind her in the surfboard hold okay that's fine that's old as the hills then what julia does to rhea rippley is raises her right foot and gives her a legitimate curb stomp right in the small of the back shoulders neck area boom and straight down and it drove rhea rippley's face down into the mat gave her a big black eye and that's what i'm talking about working dangerous and working reckless instead of working snug or stiff because when you're in that position imagine brine you're down on your knees and your arms are behind you and she's got a hold of them even if you have called ahead of time now when the referee makes me break this hold or whatever i'm going to give you a stomp in the back and you go flat to your face on the mat right that's what we've agreed on but when i'm standing there holding on to your wrists brine what i would do is i would give you the eggy on your wrists i would give you the little scrunch crunch that indicates that i'm about to let go get ready then i would let go of your hands put my foot in your back and push you forward letting you take your own bump because as soon as i let go of your hands you're going to start bringing them around in front of you and i would take it the way you take a post or if you're running to a wall i would bend my left arm in front of me and i would go down with my face turned to the right and fucking my right arm flat on the mat at the same time boom what this fucking bitch did disregarding the safety of her opponent was without letting go of the arms she put her foot in that back and she just fucking pushed her down when you've got your back to somebody you can't see when it's coming you need not only the eggy to let you know but you also need them to be working and there was no time for rea to react no time for to get her hands in front of her no time for her to stop her fucking momentum and with the padding that they use on those rings state-of-the-art padding i can't imagine how hard you've got to hit the fucking mat to give yourself a black eye that was bullshit i looked at that i was what the fuck must this fucking douchebag be thinking to do that somebody man woman male female animal vegetable mineral that was unprofessional regardless of who was doing it to who so if somebody needs to get fucking run off twitter run that fucking Julia bitch off twitter because she's dangerous and as i said if i can see somebody doing that to buddy landel and fucking lorangea luiziana and goddamn shit taking place in the locker room immediately afterwards that's bullshit you've got to have a fucking private closed door talk with the son of a bitch that kicks you that hard face first to the mat but i'm sure they're all like oh things happen yeah things happen when you do them well that was you see that brian i did see that yes i did yes what a smackdown i said raw smack whatever i actually didn't know she got a black eye from it i saw it and it looked bad but i didn't realize the after effects i saw people talking about it on twitter with sharing the clip of what happened and apparently re had put a picture out of her black eye or whatever but jesus age christ again just ridiculous i i don't know what's possessing most of these young folks these days and that nevertheless moving on very quickly because we want to get to the main event brody king beat poor old jobber davis now his his job is to job every week but it took brody ten minutes so didn't help anybody the announcers that ignored the fuck ice chant that was briefly done at the at the bell they just kind of talk over it and then brody king told swerve that he's the most dangerous man in aew and he wants a fight on the pay-per-view and then bandido said he wants a fight on the pay-per-view too maybe they'll both fight swerve and then music played and don phallus came out with andre dressed up like a chauffeur from good fellas and they stared at each other so i'm sure that'll be what that is did i summarize that segment properly i think so it was an interesting matchup just because mark davis is one of the bigger people there and brody king maybe the biggest person i mean paul white's not on the roster and you know i was watching this and it's like brody king is kind of now established who he is what is mark davis like he's got a necklace on and he's gigantic he kind of looks like he's auditioning to be the brother of beast man but like there's no like to find like who he is what he is what he's out for he's just a big guy that does jobs at this point well he had his partner there was a big guy too that nick gulis would have made them brothers he would have made them brothers because they looked enough alike and he'd have pushed him on top and they'd have been the tag team champions but now poor mark's just doing john you want to talk about a long time ago do you remember when we first saw him who his partner was uh no kyle fletcher osse open oh good lord that's right because it looked here was this fucking fat guy looked like he was in his 30s and his teenage kid looked like he was 14 osse osse osse well anyhow and then we were ready for our main event folks mild high madness anything goes new disqualifications say it with me all together fans lazy booking this is the children's play hour the hardly boys team would jungle jackoff and the rascals against ricochet at his stooge is and poor ftr has to be in this world now this universe the inside aw where the kids get to play with their designated play partners but they don't cross pollinate with the rest of the roster i mean this was a parody of ecw soon as jungle jackoff comes out gets in the ring then all the heels come out and jump on him and then the hardly boys make save and everybody's diving and fighting on the floor and into the arena in a triple box where you're seeing two almost completely black camera angles because the arena isn't lit and then a wide shot you can't tell what the fuck's going on anyway from the roof while the music is still playing but it's not like new jack music like god damn danger shit it's like oh it's tarzan boy it's balta fucking mora yeah the fans are having a great time i mean the biggest pop may have been when the music played a second time that got the biggest pop of the match yes because they can go oh because then they're just a bunch of fucking idiots running around in the dark in the building i mean i would expect maybe this could be the music to narrate of an all out brawl at a daycare center but anyway you couldn't see anything they did comedy with stokely in the wheelchair the gymnastics everywhere the chairs the plastic buckets the tables at one point another rascal came out that wasn't in the match and just beat people up and they used a fire extinguisher and old jungle boy got a vacuum cleaner and hit people over the end with the dust bucket it was just so contrived and over and over at one point one of the rascals didn't even know how to use the fire extinguisher because he came out using it and then he went to like hit the guy with the other part of it but he started spraying right behind him so yeah because he matched on the thing is he was he was trying to work and hit the guy with the canister and he fucking mashed the thing at the same time and sprayed it in his own face but they went you know into the overrun about three minutes into the overrun i just i fuck it it's all the same i fast forwarded about five minutes and the kukamonga kids contingent won the thing but just for no reason to just have messes like this and may him in in a sloppy fake fashion if it was three or four minutes long and it goddamn looked good then that's kind of some attitude error shit but when it's 20 minutes long and it just looks so fucking phony people just laugh at it and want to sing along with baltomora and that's the more you do on this show the the less you can ever do to do anymore you know that was profound think about that are you thinking i'm thinking you know usually people don't say that was profound think about it well because you have to dwell on it for a second and then you'll find out how profound it is i can't remember exactly how i said it now so the less you do the more you know that's that's another one something like that i believe that's another one of the tracks on the album by baltomora that's all i got to say about that that that thing there that show that's that's fine yeah i mean luta they had a good time and again the fans they loved hearing that music and just a chaos not for me and the bucks suck so i mean that's what we have felt for years that it has not changed that was that was a a dance craze in nashville at one time the buck sucking boogie well i thought uh it wasn't anything special but the fans there seem to be into it and that's not profound you don't have to think about it and that was dynamite well and think about that think about how much skill it takes how much profundity it takes to be profound well we will see what happens of course right are we doing anything else we i don't know what we're doing right now but of course after the pay-per-view coming up we have an aw pay-per-view in a few weeks so lots more aw action coming this really took the spirit out of the fucking show didn't it aw dynamite another great episode there can we get out on a down note should it should we always leave a morning less well hey w dynamite and uh what is your show i don't know why i'm trying to like save it and host it in everywhere i'm trying to get permission to leave all right if you want to call it early today because uh early god damn it's almost dark again it's your show it's your show it's your call i don't know if this is for the air or not but it is now in that case just just clean this up as best you can folks we're gonna be back soon with more we've done all we can do here if you have no more questions you're free to leave and we'll see you next time thank you fuck you and bye bye everybody yeah